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You gripped my hands when you told me about this time: a time when cities were rooted to the earth.

Under another dawn sky, New York City's structures reached up like hands grasping at too-far-away stars.

Bridges stretched out like rapidly deteriorating veins in an urban body destined for decay: remnants from a time when it was a feat just to cross over water with nothing but clumsy fossil-fueled vehicles, when our imaginations were limited by a devotion to the ground below.

And I squinted, trying to imagine life bound to the ground with only passing curiosity to lead the eyes to the skies.

In another dawn, would I have looked up at these same structures with some sort of wonder?

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This image is an abstract of one of the Manhattan Bridge's arches in New York City.